Hikaru Omake Background

    Keywords: Culture & History

DieterVerhofstadt: This page formerly related the full story with historical details of the battle between the Nobunaga shogun and his opponent Hideyoshi. It has been removed after objection of the original author (see below). In short, the shogun was defeated and forced to commit suicide the day after a triple ko had occurred in a game that was played in his presence. The game opposed Nikkai, the first Honinbo, and his major rival Rigen. The defeat was caused by an unexpected mutiny of another general, Mitsuhide. Ever since, a triple ko is said to be a bad omen.

This story provides the background to the Omake in Hikaru (right after chapter 51). In manga, an omake is an "extra" (which is the literal translation) work inserted into a collection. It could be a self-parody, character art, or, as here, a short story unrelated to the main plot.


ArnoHollosi: removed full text on 2002-11-09 by request of AndrewGrant. The text was a 1:1 copy of his web page, which is due to be published as a book. See SLCopyright for more information. Anyone who feels able to fill the gap (with his/her own words) please do so (Andrew wrote: Of course you can't copyright a historical fact, so if Dieter or anyone else wants to rewrite this page in their own words I won't object.)


This is a copy of the living page "Hikaru Omake Background" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
[Welcome to Sensei's Library!]
StartingPoints
ReferenceSection
About